For this platform to be a safe space where everyone feels welcome and free to help and be helped, it is highly important to remember the rules at all times. It depends on you, and only you, whether this place dies or flourishes. So please be a lovely part of this safe space!
Only yes is a yes. If your request is not accepted, accept that and find other matches. You are, at any time, free to decline a request as well. During a chat conversation, you have the complete right not to answer a question or to end the conversation by clicking the block button.
This platform is for exchanging experiences regarding any kind of issue, struggle, or situation in life. Yet, it is definitely not for dating or making friends. Make sure never to take the conversation in that direction and stick to the struggles you connected over. In case you feel uncomfortable, reach out to me via [contact email] and describe the issue. I am happy to help, and it is important to me that you feel safe here.
What is discussed on this platform and in the chats stays there. You are not allowed to take pictures or screenshots, store them, or share information from this platform with third parties. Posts may be shared within the community since they are posted publicly here, but they are not to be published elsewhere.
This platform is for voluntarily sharing experiences to help other students and to be helped by peers. Just as you would talk to a friend in real life, stay calm, respectful, and truthful. You gain nothing from sharing misinformation or frightening your peers. Whatever you share, do so with care and thoughtfulness about how it will be received on the other side of the screen.
Do not pressure anyone into replying, continuing a conversation, answering personal questions, or accepting a request. Do not try to make someone feel guilty for declining, blocking, or ending a conversation. If someone sets a boundary, respect it immediately and completely.
This platform is built around anonymity. Do not try to find out who another person is through repeated personal questions, requests for social media accounts, asking for full names, exact study details, addresses, or any other identifying information. Respect the fact that people are here to speak more freely and safely through anonymity.
You are welcome to share your own experiences, thoughts, and what has helped you personally. But do not present yourself as a therapist, doctor, counsellor, or any other trained professional unless you actually are one and make that transparent in an appropriate way. This platform is for peer support, not for pretending to provide professional treatment or diagnosis.
Any form of insulting, degrading, threatening, discriminatory, or intentionally hurtful behaviour is against the purpose of this space. This includes comments that target people based on identity, background, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, disability, or personal vulnerability. If you would not say it in a respectful face-to-face conversation, do not say it here.
Do not use this platform for advertising, recruiting, self-promotion, spam, or unrelated outreach. The purpose of this space is peer exchange around struggles, lived experience, support, and thoughtful conversation. Please do not turn it into something else.
If these rules are violated, I may step in, review reports, restrict access, or remove people from the platform. These rules are here to protect the space and the people in it. If something feels wrong or unsafe, please report it.